I spent the day at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, NJ observing and photographing all the many different kinds of birds and other creatures that reside there. These are some shots from this day.
Great Egret. He stood there preening this way and that way, never really seaming to be happy and starting over again. He did cast a nice reflection though.
Great Blue Heron flies across one of the brackish salt water marshes.
I was watching this Great Egret for about an hour. The Egret was working the brackish channel looking for fish when this other Egret got, what the first Egret considered, “too close to his turf” and that’s when this little chase ensued.
Great Blue Heron struts his stuff after landing on the far shore of the marsh.
Another Great Blue Heron poses for me in the late day sun. He eventually stoped posing and caught some fish.
For more information on the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, visit their web site at www.fws.gov/northeast/forsythe/.
